Sloths are animals that are part of the toothless family, as are anteaters and armadillos, although they actually do have teeth. They are known to most for their incredible slowness: rest assured a photo of a sloth will never be moved.
I sloths they are animals that are part of the toothless family, as well as anteaters and armadillos, although in reality they do have teeth. They are known to most for the incredible slowness: rest assured a photo of a sloth will never be moved.
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Sloths, characteristics
Sloths are approximately 60 centimeters long and their weight ranges from 4 to 8 kilograms. I'm very clumsy because the legs of sloths do not have such a conformation that allows them to walk on the ground.
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Their slowness is scientifically measured: they travel at a speed of 0,24 kilometers per hour. Even the head of sloths has a particular characteristic: it can rotate up to 270 degrees, thus being able to see the whole environment that surrounds it.
They have a low body temperature, which is why they love the heat. Sloths can live too 40 years thanks to the microorganisms that develop in the mantle that protects them from disease.
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Sloths, where they live
Sloths live in the rainforests of Central and South America, in a natural habitat where they are able to blend in thanks to the green reflections of their coat. Among the gray hairs of sloths are even born mold, algae and fungi.
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Sloths: 20 curiosities you (maybe) didn't know
They do not suffer from insomnia
Sloths can spend their entire lives in a tree and can sleep up to 18 hours a day. Just just that one time have to eat the week.
They digest in a month
Sloths eat leaves and yet their digestion is also very slow: it can take up to a month!
They make the feces in a hole dug before
Sloths are animals very clean for this they make their feces in a hole dug previously and then cover them all with leaves.
They don't drink
Sloths never drink, they find the liquid they need for survival in the form of drops of dew, in the leaves they eat.
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When he falls in love he makes sounds
Sloths are animals slow and calm, they show some life (but not too much) when they fall in love. They approach the lucky one and make faint sounds of love.
Shaggy coat
The coat of sloths is generally inhabited by algae, mites, ticks, beetles and moths. The hairs of the fur they are turned upwards, in the opposite direction to that of most mammals.
He always sleeps the same way
The sloth lives in fact hanging from the branches with the back turned downward. It is difficult for him to change his position.
Eat leaves but not only
Sloths feed on leaves, shoots and twigs of some trees in the forest, in particular of Cecropia, a plant to which three-toed sloths are particularly fond.
They come down from the trees in exceptional cases
Sloths come down from trees only for defecate or to move from tree to tree.
They know how to swim
Sloths, slow on land, are excellent swimmers.
The new born
The young are born after a gestation of 5-6 months, at birth they weigh about 250 grams and immediately attach themselves to the mother's abdomen with the gold claws. They come breastfed for a month and they stay with their mother for another 5 months and learn the techniques to get food.
Reproduction
The female of the sloth gives birth to a only puppy at a time, so approximately one per year.
They are monogamous
Sloths are mammals monogamy, but after mating the male disappears, leaving the female alone to take care of the cub until its sexual maturity which occurs approximately 4 months after birth. At this point the mother leaves her tree as a gift to her son and chooses another one.
They are solitary animals
Except in the period of reproduction, the life of the sloth takes place mostly alone, away from its peers and hanging on a tree.
They are relatives of armadillos and anteaters
Sloths have some surprising relatives even if they don't look alike at all: armadillos and anteaters.
On trees even when they are dead
Sloths can maintain their grip on a tree branch even after Death.
They also sleep with their eyes open
Sloths can sleep with their eyes open or in a classic way. In the first case, while sleeping, they defend themselves from predators.
The enemies of sloths
Felines, the spectacled owl (Pulsatrix spectacles) from l'arpia (Harpy harpy).
Body temperature
It is about 30 degrees, some biologists argue that the low body temperature is due to leaf diet, which require a great deal of energy for digestion.
They mate in trees
Sloths mate and give birth hanging from branches.
Dominella Trunfio
